Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Future goals for autotest and virtualization tests

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/09/2012 09:17 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 09/03/2012 16:02, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> > > But again that's not okay for all testcases.  If I want to do SCSI
> > > tests, I cannot write them in shell scripts because qemu-jeos does not
> > > have sg3_utils.
> >
> > What SCSI tests are you trying to write?
>
> At the very least dump the inquiry pages, mode pages, etc. and see that
> they make sense and correspond to the device properties.

Is this not something that's reasonably easy to do in qtest?

Is it possible to write a C program that does the ioctl and dump the inquiry 
page in a text format conducive to shell parsing?

> > Are these the sort of tests that would be interesting to also run on
> > Fedora, Windows, and Ubuntu?
>
> They should give exactly the same output on any guest.

Is it valuable to have a per-platform test or since this is mostly passthrough 
to the device (I assume), do you just need a single test?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo